Commode



ZAEZEM A. cAsTANxEN COMMODE Filed July l, 1955 Eig . 3nventor ALFREDBASTAN IEN M Cttorneg S.

Patented Dec. 10, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to commodes and has for its object to provide astructure having a perforated seat and a cover therefor so united thatthe cover, when it alone is raised, serves as a back rest; and furtherso that the cover can be manipulated to lower or raise the seat withouthandling the latter to permit the insertion or removal of the pot. Otherobjects may appear from the description.

'Ihe invention is embodied in the example herein shown and described,the features of novelty being nally claimed.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a top plan view of the deviceaccording to the invention with the cover raised.

Fig. 2 is a view partially in section on the line II-II Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a view in section similar to Fig. 2 with the seat down and thecover also down in closing position.

Fig. 4 is a similar view in section, the seat and cover both in raisedposition.

Fig. 5 is a detail view in section on a larger scale illustrating anintermediate position of the seat and cover in the operation of raisingthe seat by manipulating the cover.

In the views 6 designates a rectangular boxlike body or pot containersupported by legs 1, if necessary or desired, to locate the seat at theproper height above the floor.

8 designates the seat, it having an ordinary oriiice 9, said seat beinghinged by a pair of hinges, like that at IIJ, secured to the lower sideof the seat and the rear face of the container as 35 shown.

II designates the cover, it being hinged by a pair of hinges I2 securedto the lower face of the cover and the upper face of the seat. Thehinges I2 are secured to the cover at points there- 40 on to leave amargin IIa projecting beyond the rear edge of the seat sufficient, whenthe cover is raised as shownl in Fig. 2, or when both the cover and seatare raised as shown in Fig. 4, to

irnpinge upon the rear Wall of the container and sustain that or thosemembers, as the case may be, in raised position. In order to permit aslight slant rearwardly of the cover when it alone is raised, asl shownin Fig. 2, the leaf of the hinge 5 I2 applied to the seat is so locatedas to cause the pintle I2 to be in horizontally oiset position asregards the pintle of the hinge I0 and in a plane in rear of the planecf the rear edge of the seat. The osetting of the pintle I2a facili- 10tates the operation of the seat by the cover.

It will be observed from the construction shown and described that ineffect the seat constitutes a link between the cover and container sothat when the cover alone is somewhat raised or l5 swung upwardlyV andpressed rearwardly and downwardly the seat is carried upward and overwith it as depicted in Figs. 5 and 4. By omitting the described rearwardpressure the cover alone can be swung upward to the position shown in 20Fig. 2 to form a back rest for the person occupying the seat.

The seat can be let down from its raised position by reversing thedescribed operation of the cover.

The character I3 designates the pot which can be easily placed in 4orremoved from the cornmode when the seat and cover are raised as shown inFig. 4.

The parts can be changed without departing from the gist of theinvention as claimed.

What I claim is:

1. A commode including a container land a cover, and a seat linking thecover to the container whereby the seat can be raised by manipulation ofthe cover alone.

2. A commode including a container and a cover and a seat linking thecover to the container whereby the seat can be raised by manipulation ofthe cover alone, said cover having a projection to impinge on thecontainer to support the cover in raised position.

ALFRED CASTANIEN.

